Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:39:17 -0400
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Subject: Ex-FDA Chief Will Plead Guilty in Conflict
of Interest Case
Dear Carol,
Yes things are changing, you are right. And
here's the news today: Former FDA Commissioner
Crawford chaired FDA's Obesity Working Group at a
time when he and his wife owned stock in soft
drink and snack food manufacturer Pepsico
<http://stocks.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-quote.asp?symb=pep>(PEP).
And, of course, Pepsi with aspartame triggers
obesity. And no one can forget Michael Fox, a
former Diet Pepsi spokesman who said, "How can I
get Parkinson's at the age of 30, an old man's
disease". And, of course, aspartame can
precipitate Parkinson's and interacts with
L-dopa. Parcopa even has aspartame in it causing
even more damage to Parkinson
victims.
http://www.wnho.net/aspartameandgulfwar.htm Viva the
Justice
Department!
And I ask everyone on the list to email Acting
FDA Commissioner Dr. Eschenbach to demand
recall.
http://www.wnho.net/project_recall_aspartame.htm
We are very close to October 28, Make A
Difference Day, and also hope everyone on this
list and others will email or fax Report For
Schools throughout the
weekend
http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm
to every school, pediatrician and OB-GYN in all
countries. When we wake up on Monday morning
millions more could know aspartame is a deadly
poison, and schools can begin removing it saving
the lives of hundreds of thousands of children.
We salute the Justice Department for doing its job!
Read on.
All my best,
Betty
www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com
USA TODAY
Ex-FDA chief will plead guilty in conflict of interest
case
Updated 10/16/2006 3:53 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) Former FDA chief Lester
Crawford will plead guilty for failing to
disclose a financial interest in companies his
agency regulated, his lawyer said Monday.
The Justice Department accused the former head of
the Food and Drug Administration with falsely
reporting that he had sold stock in companies
when he continued holding shares in firms governed by
FDA rules.
Crawford "is going to plead guilty to two
misdemeanors tomorrow afternoon and he is going
to admit his financial disclosures had errors and
omissions, mostly with his wife's continued
ownership of stocks," said Crawford's lawyer, Barbara
Van Gelder.
"At the end of the day, he owned these stocks,
and he will admit he owned them while he was at
the FDA and he will take responsibility for that," Van
Gelder said.
The Justice Department's fraud and public
corruption section filed an information in the
case Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington.
READ THE FILING:
<http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/fda/uscrawford101606crinf.html>Details
of conflict claims
Accused of conflict of interest and making a
false writing, Crawford is scheduled to appear
before a federal magistrate Tuesday afternoon.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in
prison.
Court papers say Crawford failed to disclose his
income from exercising stock options in Embrex
<http://stocks.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-quote.asp?symb=embx>(EMBX),
of Research Triangle Park, N.C., an agriculture
biotechnology company. Crawford had been a member
of Embrex's board of directors, according to federal
filings.
The court papers also say Crawford chaired FDA's
Obesity Working Group at a time when he and his
wife owned stock in soft drink and snack food
manufacturer Pepsico
<http://stocks.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-quote.asp?symb=pep>(PEP),
based in Purchase, N.Y., and food product
manufacturer Sysco
<http://stocks.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-quote.asp?symb=syy>(SYY),
based in Houston.
The panel Crawford chaired was making decisions
affecting food and soft drink manufacturers.
Crawford, a veterinarian, abruptly resigned from
the FDA job in September 2005 but gave no reason
for his decision. He had held the top position
just two months but had been acting head of the agency
more than a
year.
According to the Justice Department's filing:
•A government ethics official inquired about
Crawford's ownership of stock in several
companies FDA regulates and Crawford replied in a
Dec. 28, 2004 e-mail that "Sysco and
Kimberly-Clark have in fact been sold." Actually,
the court papers state, Crawford knew that he or his
wife held shares
in both.
•Even though financial reporting requirements for
federal officials say all income must be
disclosed, Crawford failed to reveal $8,000 in
income from the exercise of Embrex stock options
in 2003, and failed to report $20,000 from the
sale of Embrex stock options in 2004.
•At the time he was chairing the government
obesity panel, Crawford and his wife owned more
than $25,000 in Pepsico shares and more than $25,000
in Sysco shares.
Contributing: AP reporter Andrew Bridges, Reuters
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Find this article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/us/2006-10-16-ex-fda-chief-stock_x.htm?csp=24
At 01:15 AM 10/16/2006, Carol Adams wrote:
On Sunday, October 15, 2006, at 09:51PM, Dr.
Betty Martini,D.Hum.
<<mailto:bettym19%40mindspring.com>bettym19@mindspring.com>
wrote:
<<Original Attached>>
Dearest Betty:
Thanks so much for the additional information on
Dr. Olney! Boy, I can't tell you how badly I
would like to jump in my car and drive to St.
Louis. (I'm in Indianapolis.) I would love to
just spend the day with him and soak up all his
knowledge!
I honestly feel that things are changing slowly
but surely....I think that more and more people
and companies are realizing that the public is
more informed and won't buy things with aspartame in
them.
Of course to those of us who have been harmed by
aspartame, it won't be fast enough to get the
garbage off the market, however, I will be happy
if just one person can be spared.
Bless you, Betty for all you do...where would this
movement be without
you?
I feel certain in my heart of hearts that we
will see an end to all these food additives, esp.
aspartame.
Mshepa - 9-11Review
My thanks to you and the best always!
Carol Adams BSN RN
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